War and rumors of war: Spring 1864 brought new struggles, hardships for East Tennessee

Federal soldiers with a gun in a captured Confederate fort outside of Atlanta, Ga. (George N. Barnard/Library of Congress)

Confederate palisades and chevaux-de-frise near the Potter house outside of Atlanta, Ga. (George N. Barnard/Library of Congress)

Parson Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig and a prominent Unionist in the Civil War. He later served as Tennessee governor and U.S. senator. He is buried in Old Gray Cemetery. (Library of Congress)